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My school, Lewis Elementary School, has a gym with two locker rooms. It was built in a time when students would change clothes for PE. The locker rooms are now mostly used for storage. Some of our teachers saw these wire clothes baskets in the locker room and thought they would make great book bins…
We are again working with natural builder James Thomson to create a cob bench in our outdoor classroom area. New bench under construction… This is the bench we created with James Thomson in the spring of 2006.
On Friday at school we held our Run for the Arts fundraiser. Run For The Arts is our annual jogathon that helps us raise money to provide additional arts related activities and events at our school. For the past few years we have used these funds to support our drama teacher in residency program. Below [...]
On Wednesday, April 22, 2009 we will be broadcasting live from the Lewis Elementary School garden. We plan to offer a tour of our garden via ustream.tv. The broadcast begins approximately at 11:00 am Pacific time. Free Webcam Chat at Ustream
On Earth Day, Wednesday, April 22, 2009 Lewis Elementary School will be broadcasting live on ustream.tv from our garden area. We will begin our broadcast at 11:00 am Pacific time. We hope you can join us as we provide a tour or our school garden area. We anticipate a broadcast of between 10 and 15 [...]
On Friday, April 10, 2009 our 5th grade students finished their two week bicycle safety class with a ride through the Springwater Corridor on a trip to Sellwood Middle School. The class was lead by Carl Larson of the Bicycle Transportation Alliance. Carl also has lead pedestrian safety classes for our second and third grade [...]
The Lewis Elementary School PTA will be holding their annual auction on Thursday, March 5, 2009 at the Bosanova Ballroom. The proceeds go to help fund various activities at Lewis including support for our OMSI Science Camp experience for our 4th and 5th grade students and to help fund our gardening program. You can preview [...]
Students in Mrs. Gould’s classroom recently made pop-up books. Below are a few examples…
At Lewis we have been working to establish and sustain a garden education component to our curriculum. Recently the work of our staff and families was highlighted on the Portland Nursery web site. Thanks to Peggy Alcott and the Portland Nursery staff for their continued support to our program… photo credit: lewiselementary
I’m at Lewis today working in the computer lab. Our PTA has a function going on and in spite of the weather, it is taking place and I needed to open the building for them. I’m using the time to reimage our old lab computers. Last Wednesday we unboxed and set up 23 new iMacs [...]
This spring Emily Chapman talked with Lewis Elementary music/technology teacher Tony Jamesbarry about technology and art instruction at Lewis Elementary. The video provides an overview of our program and demonstrates some of the projects that students have been working on. Emily, a Media Studies graduate of the University of San Francisco, is an old family [...]
The ecoroof on our outdoor classroom at Lewis is growing nicely this spring. I’ll grab some shots from the school roof later this week and post them to Flickr.
On Friday the Lewis Elementary PTA sponsored a BBQ and picnic on the school playground. Musical entertainment was provided by our own Boomin’ Beats students and also a local Marimba Band which featured Lewis alum, Wilson Alness. In addition a local band lead by Lewis parent Chris Hawking also performed to a very appreciative crowd. [...]
At Lewis Elementary we recently created a butterfly garden space near our west entrance. Our Americorp Volunteer, Julia Hamlin put together a slide show that documents the work done by our students and volunteers… I exported the slides as images and put them up on Flickr and have used Slideoo to present them below. Update: [...]
At Lewis, we are in the middle of creating a butterfly garden near the west side entrance to the building. This is being led by our Americorps Volunteer, Julia Hamlin, and with the help of many parents. Tomorrow, Sunday, May 18, we are having a work party to finish the project. Below are some images [...]
Challenge Month won’t Change Antonia’s Routine.: The folks over at the Bicycle Transportation Alliance have a nice profile of one of my students, Antonia. Antonia rides her bike to school every day, rain or shine. The article also talks about the involvement of Lewis in the BTA’s Walk and Bike Challenge… Technorati Tags: antonia, bike, [...]
Our Nutrition Services department is working to offer more locally produced food in our school cafeterias. They have a program called Harvest of the Month and on Tuesday they invited local media to our school to talk to students about the latest choice…. beets… I hate beets Technorati Tags: beets
I spent some time this weekend learning how to use ScreenFlow, screencast creation software for Mac OS X. I have been using Jing to make short tutorials for my staff. These tutorials are short introductions that highlight features of our web site, or demonstrate how to do common computer tasks. While Jing is free, and [...]
Today 23 volunteers braved the cold and come out to work at Lewis Elementary as part of our King Holiday Day of Service. We got quite a bit accomplished including pruning our apple trees, and the cleaning out of several flower beds. Along with students, staff and parents, our work party also included 8 Americorp [...]
Currently Portland Public Schools utilizes polystyrene foam trays in its school lunch program. Lewis Elementary School staff, parents and students have voiced concern about the environmental impact of polystyrene and have been looking to go back to washable trays. Through the help of our PTA, we have purchased washable trays and we are involved in [...]
This year we have him full time and in addition to his music classes, instrumental band, recorder club, marimba group and tech/literacy he will be adding two technology/literacy periods a week for our 3rd grade students, and a piano lab section for our 2nd grade students.... They were very excited about the program and several of our teachers have asked for an afterschool session so they can also learn about the program too.As this school year begins, I am hoping to be a bit more faithful in updating this weblog with information about what the teachers and students at Lewis are up to.
Six schools; one has to go | PortlandTribune.com : Inner Southeast parents get set to help make closure decision By JENNIFER ANDERSON Issue date: Fri, May 5, 2006 Technorati Tags: Lewis Elementary
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After the set up I was walking around talking with students and parents and noticed that one student's father was working away on his laptop. We have a building wide wireless network and he said he was getting a nice signal in the cafeteria and appreciated being able to get online while his son took part in the tournament.
